AskOxford
www.askoxford.com
This Web site includes such features as Ask the Experts, Better Writing, World of Words, Word of the day, Quote of the Day, and much more.

A Basic Dictionary of ASL (American Sign Language) Terms

www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
This site offers both animated and text definitions. The test definitions also include letter or number sign images to aid in visualizing the sign.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

www.dictionary.cambridge.org
This online dictionary ranges from intermediate to proficiency level; it is clear, up-to-date, and easy to use.

Dictionaries by Language

http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/Language
This Web site includes everything from American Sign Language to Yiddish!

Dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com
This site includes such features as Bookstore, Fun and Games, Language Resources, Thesurus.com Tools, Translation, and Word of the Day.

A Dictionary of Slang
www.peevish.u-net.com/slang/
This is an online dictionary of slang, with new slang added every month!

Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx
This useful Web site encourages learning and respects the role of parents in their children’s education.

Glossaries by Languages
www.lai.com/glossaries.html
This is an extremely comprehensive site, including languages from Arabic to Gaelic to Welsh.

iLoveLanguages
www.ilovelanguages.com
This Web site is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2,000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed.

iTools
www.itools.com/lang/
Via this site, one can learn the meaning of any word, its correct spelling, how to pronounce it, and where it originated.

Medline Plus
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
This Web site is a gold mine of good health information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.

Merriam-Webster Online
www.m-w.com
This online source includes Merriam-Webster’s Real Time Words, which consists of unedited entries randomly selected from millions of searches on Merriam-Webster Online that make the Top Ten List of the most frequently looked-up words.

OneLook
www.onelook.com
This Web site offers 6,002,182 words in 966 dictionaries, indexed!

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
www.blueray.com/dictionary/
This site offers unusual dictionaries, such as The White Queens Dictionary of One-Letter Words, Dictionary of All-Consonant Words, and Dictionary of All-Vowel Words.

Thesauri
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Sources/thesauri.html
A very comprehensive source, beginning with “Access to Asian Vegetables Thesaurus!”

Thesauri
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Thesauri
This site is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory on the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This Web site offers more than 300,000 portals of information!

Wordsmyth
www.wordsmyth.net
This online source provides useful, accessible reference resources and is made expressly for elementary school-aged children.

Word2Word.com
www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
This site provides links in the hope of developing a better understanding of others through the use of language; it offers numerous online dictionaries.

Your Dictionary.com
www.yourdictionary.com
This Web site uses the database of the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (AHD), published by Houghton-Mifflin Company, as well as Roget’s Thesaurus.

Your Free Language Wizard
www.foreignword.com
This online source provides access to more than 200 online dictionary for 70 languages.